I think there's a big difference between implementers working in the open to write standards and create test implementations and keep the public informed about the progress toward standardization - as Mozilla, Apple, Opera, and Microsoft are doing with HTML5 and related efforts - as opposed to developing in secret, and launching new features fully-formed into the wild with no chance for discussion and usually no adequate spec, as both Microsoft and Netscape did during the browser wars.
Agreed. Except for the part where nobody seems to consider these "test" implementations. I'm not so much critical of the process as the apparent developer community attitude/reaction/expectations to a work in progress.
Most of the reactions I see here and on Reddit are dozens of people saying, "Great, I can't use this until it's in IE." I'm not exactly seeing mainstream sites depending on these in-development technologies.
